TB MAC Request for Applications – Funding summary
Below is a summary of the grants advertised by RfA and awarded by TB MAC from the 1st of February 2013 to the 1st of January 2016.
Reviewing procedure
Oversight by TB MAC Advisory Panel. Each application was reviewed by 3 independent reviewers (with no detected conflict of interest with any of the applicants). One TB modeller, one non-TB modeller and one policy reviewer. Each of the pre-declared criteria were scored, summed and used to rank the applications within each reviewer. The overall ranks from the three reviewers were then averaged to give an overall rank across all applications. The top ranking applications were awarded until available funding was exhausted.
Awards
The feasibility of digital CXR / computer assisted reading and CRP as TB triage test for identifying individuals who require confirmatory testing for pulmonary TB (February 2013) – Anja van t Hoog – AIGHD – $15,000; Deliverables – PPT, international presentation, manuscript submission
Modelling to support the scale-up of TB case detection within countries (January 2014) – Joshua Salomon – Harvard College of Public Health – $150,557; Deliverables – PPT, manuscript submission
TB MAC Targets (May 2014) – Joshua Salomon – Harvard School of Public Health – $20,625; Deliverables – two manuscript submissions
Estimating the poverty alleviation benefits of scaling up tuberculosis control programs (January 2014) – Stephane Verguet – Harvard College of Public Health – $15,000; Deliverables – submission of Poverty manuscript
Modelling to understand the epidemiological impact and market impact of harmonised regimens for MDR-TB (July 2014) – Lisa Smith – WDI – $97,500; Deliverables – PPT, international presentation, manuscript submission
Modelling tradeoffs in the introduction of new TB antibiotics (January 2015) – Ted Cohen – Yale University – $70,000; Deliverables – PPT, international presentation, manuscript submission
Can we reach the post-2015 targets in China, South Africa, and India? (January 2015) – Gaby Gomez – AIGHD – $46,251; Deliverables – international presentation, and two manuscript submissions
Treatment for latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI): in what settings is the greatest impact on the burden of active TB seen? (March 2015) – Romain Raggonet – University of Melbourne – $17,246; Deliverables – manuscript – Is Isoniazid Preventative Therapy more Effecting in High Burden Settings? Modelling the Effect of TB Incidence on IPT Impact
Mathematical modelling for TB burden estimation (September 2015) – Pete Dodd – University of Sheffield – $60,654; Deliverables – PPT, international presentation, manuscript submission, open access model
Modelling multidrug-resistant fitness cost and genotypic heterogeneity to accurately define tuberculosis program treatment targets (November 2015) – Gwen Knight – Imperial College London – $66,108; Deliverables – PPT, international presentation, abstract, manuscript submission
Informing decision making for universal access to quality tuberculosis care in India – an operational epidemic / economic modelling framework (January 2016) – David Dowdy – Johns Hopkins University – $65,000; Deliverables – PPT, international presentation, manuscript submission
Social Protection to enhance the control of TB – Modelling Consortium (S-PROTECT) (January 2016) – Delia Boccia, LSHTM – $99,993; Deliverables – PPT, international presentation, manuscript submission, open access model
Assessing the impact of poverty and DOTS programme coverage on tuberculosis epidemiology in Yunnan, China for integration into a modelling framework (January 2016) – Richard Coker – LSHTM – $123,224 ; Deliverables – PPT, international presentation, manuscript submission.
